CLEVELAND -- Ariel Castro's words in court Thursday had little in common with the images that flashed on the screen -- photos that were taken inside the now infamous home on Seymour Avenue.

Those photographs showed the rusted chains that had bound the three women he kidnapped to a pole in the cellar, a Ruger pistol with which he threatened them and forced them to play Russian roulette, and motorcycle helmets he placed on them to muffle screams.